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1. Creating table of contents in adobe how to#
2. Creating table of contents in adobe pdf#
3. Creating table of contents in adobe download#

**Note: For bold or italic text, select the correct font subset (i.e. Next, make sure that the font size matches the title text: Click the Add button, then select "Text Matching Options" category and add the correct font for the Title. The second step is to setup the bookmarks and different levels of bookmarks, so that they correctly match the text formatting from Step 1. Once this is done to the whole document (best if done before converting to PDF, if converting from, for example: MS Word), you will then need to click From Page Text. and setup the Bookmarks correctly. Arial-bold), there is no subset for underlining, so bookmarks cannot be generated with them** Unlike Bold and Italic which are defined font subsets (i.e. **Note: Underlines are not actually a font style. For my example, I have chosen to A) Make the title text larger than the headings and sub-headings, and underline them (though this cannot be used as an identifier - see note below screen-shot for added detail) B) To bold the headings and make them slightly larger than the sub-headings C) To italicize the sub-headings and to make them 1 pt. This means that text size, the font used and text formatting (bold, italic, etc.) are all vitally important. To elaborate: the title must be different from the heading and sub-heading the heading must be different from the title and sub-heading and the sub-heading must be different from the title and heading. This is best done using the From Page Text function, located on the Bookmarks tab.įor the best results, make sure that Titles, Headings and Sub-headings are formatted very differently from one another, so they they are easily and clearly identifiable. I hope you find it useful.Firstly, you will need to create bookmarks.

Creating table of contents in adobe how to#

Please read the homepage for the details on how to use this toolset.

Creating table of contents in adobe pdf#

Save it as recipe.toml, and use the pdftocgen command to automatically generate an outline $ pdftocgen onlisp.pdf tocĪnd import it to the PDF file using pdftocio: $ pdftocio -o output.pdf onlisp.pdf < toc You could use the pdfxmeta tool to build a "recipe" file ]

Creating table of contents in adobe download#

It uses the embedded font attributes and position information of headings to generate a table of contents automatically.įor example, for the PDF version Paul Graham's On Lisp, available for download on his website but comes without a table of contents. I wrote an open source command line toolset called pdf.tocgen just for doing this. (although Emacs's amazing PDF-tools and Zathura are my favorite PDF editor and viewer respectively). It works well under wine.Īlthough not related to the question, I just would like to add that at the moment PDF X-Change viewer appears to me to be the most powerful PDF editor/viewer on linux. If these options do not work, then I would also like to recommend PDF-XChange Viewer as a very powerful bookmark/contents extractor (selected text can be easily added to the bookmarks). However, I would suggest you try the python script called document-contents-extractor to extract the contents. (Not enough reputation points to comment) Like the answer by Patrick Bourdon, I would also recommend HandyOutliner ( ).

In case this package's functionality is not sufficient or using Emacs is no option then the remaining part of this answer remains valid. It includes options to extract the TOC via OCR. Using this package becomes even easier with the toc-mode package for (Spac)Emacs described next.įor all other PDF and DJVU documents there is a new package called toc-mode for Emacs, which in my opinion provides the easiest way to add Table of Contents to documents (for linux and possibly also for different OS's). PDF's not created from scans, I recommend to use (and upvote the answer by Krasjet) pdf.tocgen.